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8 <br />Without modification of the Solid Waste Management Plan and its implementation schedule, any <br />financing mechanism would lie, required to raise between $1.8 and $3.8 million each year for the <br />next decade to supplement the revenue of the present landfill. tipping fees. The financing options. <br />considered above vary most significantly in which portions of the community may subsidize <br />other portions. For example, the use of the tax rate would allow tax-exempt properties to be <br />subsidized by others.. The tipping fee may require subsidy by waste generators that do not. <br />receive recycling and waste reduction services.. The use of an availability fee may be set to <br />include or exclude tax-exempt properties and/or undeveloped properties. <br />Graph 2 suggests that the Availability Fee and an added assessment on the Orange County tax <br />rate would be the most efficient means to finance the SWMP; that is; the impact on the average <br />homeowner is the least... We believe that the Availability .Fee provides greater flexibility in <br />setting charges .against businesses and multi-family developments of varying sizes, while use of <br />the County Tax Rate would provide a level of administrative ease. <br /> F <br />,~ <br />• t <br />